http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/israel/schools/index.htm
What You Can Do
Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel make up nearly one-quarter of Israel's schoolchildren. Yet Palestinian Arab children receive an education that is inferior in nearly every respect when compared to Jewish children. Educated in schools run by the Israeli government but separated from Jewish children, Palestinian Arab citizen's schools are more crowded with fewer teachers per child, and in worse physical condition. Some schools lack libraries, counselors, and recreation facilities. Palestinian Arab school children get fewer enrichment and remedial programs, and special education services, than Jewish children receive. Many communities have no kindergartens for three and four-year-olds.
Palestinian Arabs experience discrimination at every level of the education system. As a result, they are three times as likely to drop out than Jewish children and rarely make it to university.
What you can do
Write to the Israeli Minister of Education
Urge the Ministry to adopt a non-discrimination policy in education, to allocate resources equally between Jewish and Arab schoolchildren, and to close the gaps between Jewish and Arab education.
Ms. Limor Livnat
Minister of Education
39 Shivtei Yisrael Street
Jerusalem 91911
Israel
02-560-2246 (fax)
03-695-1769 (fax)
sar@education.gov.il
Contact key members of the Israeli Knesset
Urge the Knesset to amend education laws to prohibit discrimination, to fully fund current plans to address inadequacies in Arab education, and to allocation additional monies to close existing gaps.
Mr. Avraham Burg
Knesset Speaker
Jerusalem, Israel
972-2-675-4193 (fax)
burg@knesset.gov.il
Mr. Zevulun Orlev
Chair, Education and Culture Committee
Member of the Knesset
Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
972-2-675-3466 (fax)
zorlev@knesset.gov.il
Ms. Tamar Gonzasky
Chair, Committee for the Advancement of the Status of the Child
Member of the Knesset
Kiryat Ben Gurion, Jerusalem
Israel
972-2-675-3979 (fax)
gozansky@knesset.gov.il




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